Directs Knox to deliver enclosed letters, one to Captain Hodgdon and the other to an Alexander whose last name is illegible. The letters contain personal matters, and Colesworthy asks that the letters only be entrusted to careful carriers.

The President considers the letters from Governor Blount to contain information of major interest to the United States so Knox should respond to them accordingly. The letters from Governors Lee and Telfair should also be evaluated.

"The letters to Mr. Hammond & Mr. Pinckney appear to me proper according to the facts stated in them. The object of that to Mr. Genet also appears to me desirable but I am not wholly without scruple as to the proposition going from the United States."

Enclosed are copies of Howell's Circular Letters to Recruiting Officers of the 1st and 20th March 1793 and January 23rd 1794. Strict attention must be paid to the Letters to avoid any embarrassment in the settlement of accounts.

McHenry notified Simmons that "it would be proper" for him or for the Chief Clerk to examine letters from Col. Stevens and determine which letters or parts of letters were necessary for settlement of Stevens accounts.